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The Patty Duke Show Board Game, which I saw at a sale on 6th Avenue about ten years ago.
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1910s sheet music for a song called “There’s an Awful Lot of Marys Down in Maryland.”
When we were first married, my wife and I looked at a nice victorian home in a historical district. It was subdivided into apartments. The income would have paid the mortgage and we could have expanded as our incomes grew.
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Tickets to a Chicago Bulls game when I was in America and Michael Jordan was at his best. At the time I was in an exceptionally well paid job and wouldn’t have worried what the cost was. Just never got around to it though
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Soooo many stocks I regret not buying 7 or 8 years ago. Now I just regret not selling the ones I have
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Again when I was in the exceptionally well paid job, I kinda regret not buying a stupid sports car (Porsche, Ferrarri, Viper or something). I was in my mid to late 20’s and could have had some serious fun in one of those. Not a big regret that one though.
Not buying Harley Davidson (planned on three hundred shares) shortly after it went public on AMEX. Price was approximatly 7.00 USD and has split at least six times since.
Be worth 800-900 thousand by now.
A faux-Tiffany lamp I almost bought 3 years ago for about $340. I’ve never again seen one just like it, and it was so pretty and would have looked great in my bay window. My husband said that we’d find another one for less, and of course we never have. I don’t let him forget it either. 
Twiddle
$1000 worth of stock in Sun Microsystems in mid 1995. The wife said we didn’t have the money. Had I done so, and sold out in August of 2000 (I’m no dummy - I saw where the economy was headed), I would have sold out for a cool $1.3 million
Instead, I’m still a regular working schmuck. Dammit.
During a dark period in my life about seven years ago I got rid of about 90% of my belongings. So any time I think about something I might have bought before then I console myself with the thought that even if I had bought it I probably wouldn’t have it now anyway.
Then I go look for it on eBay.
Right before the economy skyrocketed, I had a little spare cash I was planning to put in Amazon, Starbuck’s, and Yahoo.
If I had, I’d be talking to you from my private island. Or having my trained monkey do it for me. Dammit.
A Thunderbird Super-coupe I saw in a dealership. I was ready to trade my old 89 T-bird (base model) in on something larger. This car was in the showroom, it was last-year’s model that somehow got left behind, now one-year old & still new. It was heavily discounted to get it off the lot.
Standard transmission, big engine.
Man, I wish I had bought it.
A few more pairs of the Wolverine boots I bought when I first moved to the Twin Cities. Waterproof, insulated, and flexible. You can’t get all three in a boot any more; all the insulated boots are like ski boots, and all the waterproof ones aren’t insulated, etc.
A green wool cape when I was in Ireland. It was expensive, but not too bad. I was worried it wouldn’t fit in my luggage, and didn’t want to go through the hassle of shipping it back. I saw it about halfway through my trip and figured if I really wanted it I could find a similar one somewhere else. But I didn’t, and now I can’t even remeber the name of the shop I saw it at.
The house we used to rent–it was a 2-story split-level that was laid out better than any house we’d lived in before or since. The owner decided he wanted to sell it and gave us the option to buy it. The asking price was $275,000, which was quite reasonable at the time, and I’m sure that despite the fact that we didn’t have a down payment, we could have worked something out with him. But we decided not to because the house needed some work (such as fixing a minor crack in the foundation that let water seep into the downstairs bathroom). The same house today would probably sell in the $500,000-600,000 range, not that that makes a big difference–I just wanted the house.
To this day (about 8 years later) I still occasionally say to the spouse, “You know, I really wish we’d bought that house…”
He’s getting tired of hearing it. 
That ho on 42nd.
Stock in Wizards of the Coast. I had the opportunity before they released Magic: The Gathering but didn’t pursue it.
A friend of mine saw a used tv projector for 5 bucks in a thrift shop, in decent condition. Yes, they have awful picture quality, but you don’t need 1280x1024 resolution to play Atari on the side of a barn.
Two things:
A cassette of Patrick Stewart narrating Peter and the Wolf. I could listen to that voice for hours.
The Dr. Laura board game that I saw on clearance for $3. I didn’t buy it because I didn’t want to endorse her in any way, but I still think that it could have been a great party game, with some possible modifications. Who doesn’t love mocking Dr. Laura?
A really great pair of shoes I saw in a catalog.
A beautiful dresser with lots of inlaid wood. My ex had it and I wouldn’t buy it because he owed me 10 years child support and I didn’t want to buy something he should have given me.
This never happens to me–I’m too much of an impulse shopper. I often get the opposite, though. (Vintage polyester pants with black, white, and purple diamond pattern? What the hell was I thinking?)
Eve, great thread!
Several years ago we were at a yard sale and this man was selling all of these human teeth in one of those black velvet gem cases (you know, the flat boxes with the acrylic on top). I think he wanted $400 for it, but man, do I wish I had bought it. Why? I haven’t a clue. :mad:
The $2000 Jenn-Air brushed stainless side by side fridge that was on clearance for $500 (it had been a special order and the store had ordered the wrong one). That was just this last weekend.
I always tell my Mom that there will be another opportunity.
Ummmm Where do you live??